Hello Rick,

Many thanks for the links - I was just asking on spec., but nothing you write would be clogging the board! You will have noticed that people quite often answer messages written as far back as 2001 when they see a connection, and everything may be useful to someone, sometime.

It would probably be easier if I give you the Callow/Kerruish connection in which I am most interested, if you would please tell me whether CR touched on it anywhere in her Callow charts? It is a small hope, because she didn't record them other than as "8 children + Robert m Ann Costen, Booilevelt" on her KERRUISH, Cardle, chart, and she had the wrong William Kerruish father for them. The Robert Kerruish later of Booilevelt whom she names was bapt in 1699 - not the eldest, but child number 6. His eldest brother was b.1691, and couldn't possibly have been the son of William Kerruish bapt 5 April 1681 "de Carradal". William b.1681 was the younger brother of Robert Kerrruish 1679-1717, the Cardle heir - one of a long line of Robert Kerruishes in Cardle.

I'm interested in the Isabel CALLOW who married William KERRISH/KERRUISH in Maughold on 20 Jan 1690/91, and the presumed parents of the above Robert. In William Kerruish's will (1730) he was "of Carradell" [Cardle], as was his son William in his 1728 will ("This is affirmed to be the Last will and testament of Wm Kerrish Junior of Cardel within the parish of KK Maughold who Departed this Life in December 1728..." etc).

These were the children of William and Isabel, named in the wills of William KERRUISH and his son William:
Maughold bapts:
KERRISH John [son of] William Kerrish/ [bapt] Parish Church 27 Dec 1691
KERRISH Ewan William Kerrish/ Parish Church 12 Feb 1692/93 [buried Maughold May 3 1703? Not in wills]
KERRISH Isabel William Kerrish/ Parish Church 16 Sep 1694 [married William CHRISTIAN Maughold 15 Jun 1718]
*KERRISH William William Kerrish/ Parish Church 19 Apr 1696 [d.1728]
KERRISH Mally William Kerrish/ Parish Church 18 Apr 1697 [Mary]
KERRISH Robert William Kerrish/ Parish Church 28 Sep 1699 [of Booilevelt d.1777 ag.77 (M.I.) marr.Ann Costen]
*KERRISH William William Kerrish/ Parish Church 15 Mar 1701/02 [d.1728]
KERRISH Barba: William Kerrish/ Parish Church 15 Apr 1704 [married William CORKILL Ballagorry Mooar 27 Nov.1731. Barbara Corkill als Kerruish buried Maughold Jan 11 1768 (will)]
KERRISH Thomas William Kerrish/ Parish Church 3 Sep 1706, [married Margaret QUILLEASH 8 Nov.1746. Burial Maughold: Thos. Keruish, cooper, 26th September 1786, aged 80 (will)]
KERRISH Edward William Kerrish/ Parish Church 24 Apr 1711
Also sister Margery, no bapt found.

*Note TWO William Kerruish brothers, sons of William who died 1730.
Maughold burials:
Wm KERRUISH buried Dec 7 1728
Wm KERRUISH Bro to ye above Wm buried Dec 14 1728

In the father William's will he "Bequeathed to his Loving wife Isabell Kerruish alias Christian..." which stumped me for a long time because there was no Isabel Christian marriage to William Kerruish at that time, and no will - no sign of an Isabel Christian of the right age in Maughold records. Joyce Oates, who has transcribed 100s of wills and summaries which are in Brian Lawson's wills' index and Manx Notebook, believes that the "als Christian" was a scribe's error in William's will, because he was also writing about her daughter Isabel CHRISTIAN als Kerruish, and had "Christian" combined with Isabel on his mind! And that it should have read Isabel Kerruish als CALLOW.
Additionally, Joyce believes that Isabel Callow was the daughter of Edward CALLOW of Ramsey, and Isabel CHRISTIAN, and had a brother John Callow of Ballacreggan. She also thinks that William Kerruish d.1730 (of Cardle in wills) was also recorded of Ballacreggan in uncle Ewan Kerruish's 1695 will - and that this Ewan was a brother of the Cardle heir Robert Kerruish d.1675.

Many thanks if you can throw any light on this.

Sue
Sue(at)d2 .net.au [(at) = @ and no gaps]